Quantifying groundwater-surface water interactions in a proglacial moraine using heat and solute tracers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5411-5426

  Langston, Gregory ^a,b   Hayashi, Masaki ^a   Roy, James W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

alpine hydrology; energy balance; hydraulic conductivity; water balance

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENERGY BALANCE; FLOW RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACERS; WELLS;

GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; WATER BALANCE;

GROUNDWATER;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIAL LAKE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS BALANCE; MORAINE; POND; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM; TRACER; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED; WELL WATER;

CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84883533464     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20372     Document Type: Article

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